Webinar: Renovating the Heart

Here are some resources mentioned in Renovating the Heart: How Dallas Willard’s Classic on Human Transformation Helps Us Today webcast conversation between Jane Willard, Gary Moon, Natasha Sistrunk Robinson, and Carolyn Arends.

SPECIAL NOTES AND OPPORTUNITIES

• We’ve just begun reading Renovation of the Heart in the Renovaré Book Club. Friday, April 8^th, is the last day to join.

• Renovaré’s Lent Resource Page

WEBINAR RESOURCES

• Webinar Recording without ads

Countdown Song

• Willing from the album Love Was Here First by Carolyn Arends

Resources Recommended by Jane Willard

• Books by Dallas Willard

  • Renovation of the Heart: Putting on the Character of Christ — 20^th Anniversary Edition

  • The Spirit of the Disciplines: Understanding How God Changes Lives

  • Life without Lack: Living in the Fullness of Psalm 23

  • Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God

  • The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life in God

  • The Great Omission: Reclaiming Jesus’s Essential Teachings on Discipleship

• Other Resources

  • Dallas Willard Ministries

  • Renovation of the Heart Bible Reading Guide

  • Dallas Willard on Conversatio

  • Anniversary reflections on Renovation of the Heart

  • Renovaré Podcast with Jan Johnson

Resources recommended by Natasha Sistrunk Robinson

• Books by Natasha Sistrunk Robinson

  • Mentor for Life: Finding Purpose through Intentional Discipleship

  • Hope for Us: Knowing God through the Nicene Creed

  • A Sojourner’s Truth: Choosing Freedom and Courage in a Divided World 

  • Journey to Freedom: Discovering the God of Deliverance, An Exodus Bible Study

  • Voices of Lament: Reflections on Brokenness and Hope in a World Longing for Justice (A book of essays, poems, and liturgies by Women of Color on Psalm 37)
    
    

• Other Resources

  • Voskamp: One Thousand Gifts 10^th Anniversary Edition: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

  • Natasha Sistrunk Robinson Ministries

  • Leadership LINKS, Inc. 

  • Natasha on Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube 

Resources recommended by Gary Moon

• Books by Gary W. Moon

  • Becoming Dallas Willard: The Formation of a Philosopher, Teacher, and Christ Follower

  • Eternal Living: Reflections on Dallas Willard’s Teaching on Faith and Formation

  • Apprenticeship with Jesus: Learning to Live Like the Master

  • Falling for God: Saying Yes to His Extravagant Proposal

  • Counseling and Christianity: Five Approaches
    
    

• Other Resources

  • The LifeSprings Renovation of the Heart video series and study guide

  • A Beginner’s Introduction to the Philokalia

  • Conversatio.org 

  • Dallas’s Four Concerns:

    • (1) The invisible is real (Divine Conspiracy)

    • (2) We can interact with/draw knowledge from that reality (Hearing God/Spirit of the Disciplines)

    • (3) We are designed to interact with that reality (RotH)

    • (4) If we do it, it will produce real and measurable changes. (Knowing Christ Today)

Resources recommended by Carolyn Arends

• Learn more about the Renovaré Institute for Christian Spiritual Formation

• Carolyn’s website

Other Resources Mentioned in the Webinar and Chat:

• Marjorie Thompson Quote: 

  • “A Spiritual Director is one who ​“listens” the other into clarity. A Spiritual Director ​“listens to God behind the listening.”

• Robert Mulholland Quote

  • “Spiritual transformation is the Spirit-empowered process we engage in by which our hearts are transformed into Christ’s image, for the joy of our Creator, the benefit of others, and our own abundant life.”

• Nouwen: Spiritual Direction: Wisdom for the Long Walk of Faith

• Hudson: The Cycle of Grace: Living In Sacred Balance

• Christian Psychiatrist Karl Lehman’s Website

• Johnson: Renovation of the Heart in Daily Practice: Experiments in Spiritual Transformation (Redefining Life)

• Johnson: Prayer and Listening 

• Jesus College

• A conversation between Dallas, Larry Crab, and John Ortberg

• Dallas Willard’s Four Key Concerns

• Benner: Surrender to Love: Discovering the Heart of Christian Spirituality (The Spiritual Journey)

• Jersak: Can You Hear Me?: Tuning in to the God Who Speaks